Episode-1477- Kenton Zerbin on Permaculture, Crowdfunding and More
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Kenton Zerbin of PRI Barbados
Kenton Zerbin is an inspirational speaker, teacher & consultant who empowers others to repair degraded landscapes, grow food and build community. A teacher by training, Kenton specialty is in facilitating a quality education as a professionally certified Permaculture teacher.
He has spent the last 3 years studying, designing and teaching Permaculture across Australia and Canada, designing properties and guest speaking for gardening groups, conferences and Universities alike. He now serves as the PRI certified Permaculture Teacher & educational program planner for The Caribbean Permaculture Research Institute of Barbados.
Kenton joins us today to discuss the power of community funding and a brand new permaculture research Institute in Barbados. We also discuss Self-sufficiency vs. inter-dependency along with our view of what permaculture really is all about.
We further examine the question of can humans be a regenerative force or are we a virus bent on paracitism of the planet. We continue with why Kenton feels that “self-sufficiency” a commonly misunderstood concept. From there we discuss the solutions offered by permaculture thinking. We also discuss if there is any real escape from humanity’s current circumstance?
From there we discuss education and how it is both the problem and a potential solution to many of our issues. We finish up with a discussion on Crowdfunding and how even a failed campaign ended up helping to fund the PRI in Barbados. We also discuss why they built on in Barbados and how Barbados is actually in one way a bit like the famed Easter Island.
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I appreciated the environmental ‘bank account’ concept. Its something I stumbled across while thinking ‘how can I create and store TRUE WEALTH for my children and grandchildren’.. the answer that came to me was ‘clean abundant water, thick rich abundant topsoil, diverse plant and animal species’. Nature itself is the best place to invest.
Manipulation of the currency, or theft of money, has no effect on your ‘natural bank account’.
Scarcity, in the modern world, is a creation of man. Ensuring that the survival needs of your community are locally met (within your area of influence), is the best way to ensure that ‘civilization’, with all of its benefits will continue.
“Lo que separa la civilización de la anarquía son solo siete comidas.” (“Civilization and anarchy are only seven meals apart.”) – Spanish proverb
Market bubbles, and their inevitable crashes.. do not occur in nature.
OH I like that but I am not convinced it is 100% true. Do we not at times see population bubbles and crashes even when man doesn’t jack shit up in nature?
May be that isn’t what you meant though?
=)
You could interpret this a couple of ways..
Assuming..
‘market bubble’ = the value of the items in the market become overpriced
‘crash’ = prices fall from their overinflated price to below their ‘normal’ price
And that the market is ‘the natural world’.. the only case for falling value would be a fall in demand (less people). =)
That seems very unlikely.
Destruction of value occurs ‘naturally’ in ELEs.. and you could have a localized natural destruction of value (mudslide, fire, etc.). But of course this increases the value of the remaining natural resources, with a market (price) increase.
😉
I don’t see a temporary population overshoot as a ‘market bubble’ as its more like a single stock being overpriced.. and nature has built in market circuit breakers to take care of it (even if no predator population exists, starvation will correct the problem).
Civilization ends when the pampered beneficiaries of the hard work of the now dead have the luxury of ignoring how hard it was — and is — to build shelter from the elements, to erect public buildings from scrub, to grow food and sprout farms from sage.
Our contemporary criminals are protected from the elemental struggle and so have the indulgence to gnaw away at civilization’s veneer — and we, in our conspiratorial silence about them, likewise forgot that to keep still about the destruction of the work of others is to be complicit in it.
– Victor Davis Hanson
Any update on the PV2 tickets?
You’re wrong, Jack! Just kiddin. I don’t know how you do it. Facebook is about as much as I can tolerate.
Just gonna say that Iceland volcanism is interesting in that it’s one of the only places where land emerges along the like 40-50k miles of mid ocean ridge where sea floor is ultra thin and that stuff can just burp up like nobody’s business.
The big prehistoric lava fields in Siberia and India were supermassive. Siberia went off for like a million years and thought to perhaps be cause of biggest extinction in geo history. They think those kind of events may be triggered at the antipodes of asteroid collisions though.